Thomas M. Malaby

Professor and Chair

Office: Sabin 290D
Phone: (414) 229-5247
e-mail: malaby@uwm.edu
Web Site: people.uwm.edu/malaby
Curriculum Vitae: pdf (43kb)

Degree(s):

Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Interests:

Risk and contingency, modernity, games, technology, social theory, ritual, and performance.

Courses Taught:

Anthro 340: Cultures of Online Games and Virtual Worlds (online)
Anthro 744: Theories of Social Action - Understanding Agency and Social Structure - Sample Syllabus (pdf 110kb)
Anthro 803: Survey of Cultural Anthropology (History and Theory Proseminar) - Sample Syllabus (pdf 90kb)

Selected Publications:

2009. Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Cornell Press Listing

2009. Anthropology and play: the contours of playful experience. New Literary History 40(1): 205-218.

2009. These great urbanist games: New Babylon and Second Life. Artifact 2(3): TBD.

2007. Beyond play: a new approach to games. Games & Culture 2(2): 95-113.

2007. Contriving constraints: the gameness of Second Life and the persistence of scarcity. Innovations: Technology | Governance | Globalization 2(3): 62-67.

2006. Parlaying value: Capital in and beyond virtual worlds. Games & Culture 1(2): 141-162.

2003. Gambling Life: Dealing in Contingency in a Greek City. University of Illinois Press. Illinois Press Listing